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THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO ANYONE INTERESTED IN INTERNATIONAL HEALTH.

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2007 Global Health Mini-University
Friday, October 05, 2007



What is the Mini-University?

The Mini-University is a day-long forum offering over 60 different sessions highlighting evidence-based best practices and state-of-the-art information from a variety of technical areas across the Global Health field. The forum is divided into four hour-long blocks, each offering up to 16 concurrent presentations. In addition, five exciting brown bag sessions are offered during the lunch break. The day culminates with a Knowledge Extravaganza session and the N'Lightening Round, a lively competition during which take-home messages from the sessions are presented and prizes are awarded for the top three messages.

Please note: Check-In will begin at 8:00 am this year, and the first session will start at 9:00 am, so please arrive early! Light breakfast fare will be available.

arrow NURSING/MIDWIFE CEUs! This is the third year that Continuing Education Units will be offered at the Mini-U. Participants may choose from 6 courses and may earn up to 0.6 Continuing Education Units from the American College of Nurse Midwives for only $25! Please check the schedule for course offerings when registration opens. Participants may pay by CHECK ONLY the day of the event. Checks should be made payable to Johns Hopkins University.

arrowDON'T MISS THE FINAL KNOWLEDGE EXTRAVAGANZA! Keep on learning and join the fun! Did you miss a session you really wanted to attend? Come hear the take-home messages and see presenters compete for the best "pearls" before a panel of judges, including Dr. Kent R. Hill, Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health at USAID.

Name Badge and Certificate: If you would like to have a pre-printed name badge with your course schedule printed on the back and/or a Global Health Mini-University graduation certificate with your name printed on it, you must register online by Friday, September 28, 2007.

Details of the Event

Date:Friday, October 05, 2007
Place: The George Washington University
School of Public Health and Health Services
Ross Hall
2300 Eye St NW
Washington, DC 20037
Time: 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM : Check-In
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM : Session 1
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM : Session 2
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM : Session 3
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM : Brown Bag Sessions
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM : Session 4
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM : Knowledge Extravaganza!

Sessions and Facilitators

Below is the list of the state-of-the-art technical sessions and facilitators that will be featured in the upcoming Mini-University. For a more detailed list, click on sessions or one of the links below.

To view the Schedule at a Glance, click here.

Continuing Education Units are indicated in parentheses following the course title (e.g., Postabortion Care 101 (0.1 CEU))

Cross-Cutting

  1. A Basic Operational Framework for eHealth and Telemedicine: How to get Started
    Location: 114
    Time period: Session 1
    Instructor(s): Stephen Settimi

  2. Addressing Child Marriage Globally: What you need to know to put new, upcoming US legislation to good use
    Location: 115
    Time period: Session 1
    Instructor(s): Kathy Kurz, Saranga Jain

  3. Addressing the Reproductive Health Needs of People Living with HIV: What do Systems have to do with it?
    Location: 105
    Time period: Session 2
    Instructor(s): Betty Farrell, Laura Subramanian

  4. Another poster? How to Program Effective Behavior Change Communications (BCC)
    Location: 117
    Time period: Session 1
    Instructor(s): Elizabeth Younger

  5. Can the 4Ps still save lives? How social marketing programs meet the changing public health context
    Location: 224
    Time period: Session 3
    Instructor(s): Francoise Armand, Jeff Barnes

  6. Chronic Disease Programming – A Development Crossroad for Health
    Location: B103
    Time period: Session 3
    Instructor(s): Vic Barbiero

  7. FGC/M: A Gender and Development Approach
    Location: 114
    Time period: Session 3
    Instructor(s): Laura Raney

  8. Finding Your Way: USAID Career Development Panel
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Brown Bag Sessions
    Instructor(s): Jeff Spieler, Matt Barnhart, Erik Janowsky, Carol Carpenter-Yaman, Laura Harley

  9. Fundamentals of Clinical Trials and Human Subjects Protection at USAID – Who Does What? – And is it Done Right?
    Location: 115
    Time period: Session 2
    Instructor(s): Lee Claypool

  10. Getting the most Bang for your Health Information Buck
    Location: Lobby A
    Time period: Session 2
    Instructor(s): Tara Sullivan

  11. Health Inequality: Challenges and approaches in reaching the Poorest of the Poor
    Location: 117
    Time period: Session 4
    Instructor(s): Mai Hijazi, Suneeta Sharma

  12. Health Systems Strengthening in Post-Confict States: Perfectly Logical or Totally Insane?
    Location: 229
    Time period: Session 3
    Instructor(s): Yogesh Rajokotia

  13. Human Trafficking: Hidden in Plain Sight
    Location: 116
    Time period: Session 2
    Instructor(s): Clydette Powell

  14. Hustle, Hustle, Give A Little Muscle, Muscle!  Putting More Muscle Into Our Youth HIV and Pregnancy Prevention Programs
    Location: 116A
    Time period: Session 4
    Instructor(s): Ilene Speizer

  15. Improving Service Results through Improved Leadership and Management
    Location: 401
    Time period: Session 4
    Instructor(s): Morsy Monsour, Mark Webster

  16. Keeping Health Systems Healthy: How Governance and Accountability Can Help
    Location: 323
    Time period: Session 4
    Instructor(s): Derick Brinkerhoff, Saul Helfenbein

  17. Men Will Be Men (or Will They?): Addressing Gender Norms as a 'Gateway Factor' to Increase the Effectiveness of Reproductive Health Programs
    Location: 224
    Time period: Session 2
    Instructor(s): Karabi Acharya, Susan Middlestadt, Julie Pulerwitz

  18. Myths and Facts: A Dialogue about Community-based Approaches to Child Health
    Location: 117
    Time period: Session 3
    Instructor(s): Karen LeBan, Lynette Walker, Leo Ryan

  19. Performance-Based Incentives: More Carrots for Better Health
    Location: B103
    Time period: Session 2
    Instructor(s): Rena Eichler, Ruth Levine

  20. Strengthening M&E Systems Through a Data Quality Approach
    Location: 116
    Time period: Session 3
    Instructor(s): Karen Hardee

  21. Task shifting: Making the most of the workers you have
    Location: Lobby B
    Time period: Session 2
    Instructor(s): Barbara Stilwell, Lois Schaefer

  22. The REALLY BIG Picture: What you need to know about the changing “Aid Architecture”
    Location: 117
    Time period: Brown Bag Sessions
    Instructor(s): Al Bartlett, Karen Cavanaugh

  23. The Urban Crucible: We Cannot Ignore the Urban Health Imperative
    Location: 401
    Time period: Session 1
    Instructor(s): Vic Barbiero

  24. “Where have all the workers gone?”: The extent of the global healthcare worker shortage, why workers are leaving and some strategies for addressing the crisis.
    Location: 229
    Time period: Session 1
    Instructor(s): Lois Schaefer, Pamela McQuide

Family Planning and Maternal Health Integration

  1. Lessons in Mixology: Family Planning and Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
    Location: 224
    Time period: Session 4
    Instructor(s): Catharine McKaig, Holly Blanchard

  2. New Evidence on Pregnancy Spacing and Neonatal and Maternal Health-- How can Pregnancy Spacing Contribute to Healthy Pregnancy Outcomes? (0.1 CEU)
    Location: 105
    Time period: Session 3
    Instructor(s): Maureen Norton

  3. Post Abortion Care 101: Everything you wanted to know, but didn’t know what to ask (0.1 CEU)
    Location: B103
    Time period: Session 1
    Instructor(s): Carolyn Curtis

  4. Surviving a pregnancy, but only just - digital Stories about Fistula Clients and Services from Uganda
    Location: Lobby B
    Time period: Session 4
    Instructor(s): Katie Tell

  5. Systematic Screening: Essential Ingredient in Integrated Services
    Location: 305H
    Time period: Session 3
    Instructor(s): Jim Foreit

Family Planning and Reproductive Health

  1. 10 Secrets of Partnering and Collaboration
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Brown Bag Sessions
    Instructor(s): Catharine McKaig, Theresa Shaver

  2. All we need is the product, right? Scaling up the Standard Days Method in Rwanda and Emergency Contraception in Bangladesh
    Location: T1
    Time period: Session 4
    Instructor(s): Jim Foreit, Victoria Jennings

  3. Business Approaches to Engaging Private Reproductive Health/Family Planning Providers
    Location: 116A
    Time period: Session 2
    Instructor(s): Meaghan Smith, Makaria Reynolds, Taara Chandani

  4. Contraceptives: What's hot, what's not, and what's in the pipeline (0.1 CEU)
    Location: 323
    Time period: Session 2
    Instructor(s): Judy Manning, Mihira Karra

  5. Controlling Cervical Cancer in LDCs - Is the HPV vaccine a silver bullet?
    Location: 114
    Time period: Session 4
    Instructor(s): Amy Kleine, Jeff Spieler, Ricky Lu

  6. Ensuring contraceptive security during integration and decentralization of health systems
    Location: T1
    Time period: Session 1
    Instructor(s): Wendy Abramson, Linda Allain

  7. Is the whole better than the sum of its parts? Operations research design and initial evidence from integrated population and environment projects
    Location: B103
    Time period: Session 4
    Instructor(s): Gib Clarke, Yung-Ting Kung

  8. Not Your Mother's Method Mix: How Community-Based Outreach is Going Beyond Pills and Condoms
    Location: 224
    Time period: Session 1
    Instructor(s): John Stanback, Winnie Mwebesa

  9. Reproductive Health for Displaced Populations: Defining the need and the role of USAID and its Partners
    Location: 116
    Time period: Session 1
    Instructor(s): Theresa Shaver, Basis Tomczyk, Meriwether Beatty

  10. Save Lives, Alleviate Poverty, Spur Development: Invest in LAPMs
    Location: 305H
    Time period: Session 2
    Instructor(s): Fred Ndede, Joan Taylor, John Pile, Roy Jacobstein

HIV/AIDS

  1. A Walk Along the PMTCT Cascade: Improving the Impact of Programs to Prevent Mother To Child Transmission of HIV
    Location: 105
    Time period: Session 1
    Instructor(s): Matt Barnhart

  2. Add an ounce of prevention to that pound of cure: Integrating HIV Prevention into care and treatment settings
    Location: 116A
    Time period: Session 1
    Instructor(s): Pam Bachanas

  3. Clinicians or Counselors? Challenges to the Scale-up of HIV Testing and Counseling in Health Facilities
    Location: 115
    Time period: Session 3
    Instructor(s): Alison Surdo

  4. Examining the evidence for a Behavior Change approach to HIV/AIDS Prevention
    Location: 117
    Time period: Session 2
    Instructor(s): David Stanton

  5. HIV & Nutrition: A Framework for Addressing Patient & Family Needs
    Location: 323
    Time period: Session 3
    Instructor(s): Tim Quick

  6. HIV/AIDS Treatment: Adult & Pediatric Similarities and Differences (0.1 CEU)
    Location: 105
    Time period: Session 4
    Instructor(s): Robert Ferris

  7. How low can you go?  The ever changing world of ARV prices
    Location: T1
    Time period: Session 3
    Instructor(s): Carl Hawkins, Rich Owens

  8. Junkies and Hookers and Queers, Oh My – HIV Prevention with Most at Risk Populations
    Location: 229
    Time period: Session 4
    Instructor(s): Billy Pick

  9. Making Successful Advances – Microbicides in Human Trials (0.1 CEU)
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Brown Bag Sessions
    Instructor(s): Chris Mauney, Lee Claypool

  10. On the Horizon of Novel HIV Prevention: An Update on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and Vaccines
    Location: 104
    Time period: Session 3
    Instructor(s): David Stanton, Margaret McCluskey

  11. Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children: Reflections on Targeting, Programming Gaps, and Scaling-Up
    Location: 401
    Time period: Session 2
    Instructor(s): Kirk Felsman

  12. Palliative Care in HIV/AIDS: Strengthening the Missing Links
    Location: Lobby A
    Time period: Session 4
    Instructor(s): Ana Bodipo-Memba, Karen Stewart

  13. The Cutting Edge: Male Circumcision and HIV
    Location: 323
    Time period: Session 1
    Instructor(s): Peter Johnson

Infectious Diseases

  1. As if being pregnant weren't enough: A love affair between the Placenta and the Parasite
    Location: 114
    Time period: Session 2
    Instructor(s): Jamie Eliades

  2. Avian Influenza: Are We Moving Quietly into that Good Night?
    Location: Lobby B
    Time period: Session 3
    Instructor(s): Gavin MacGregor-Skinner

  3. Extensively Drug Resistant TB: A return to the pre-antibiotic era?
    Location: To Be Determined
    Time period: Brown Bag Sessions
    Instructor(s): Amy Bloom

  4. TB 101: A breath of fresh air on an old topic
    Location: 104
    Time period: Session 1
    Instructor(s): Clydette Powell

  5. Tenacity for Capacity: The Expansion of Country Capacity to Respond to Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Disease Threats
    Location: 115
    Time period: Session 4
    Instructor(s): Angela Weaver

  6. The President's Malaria Initiative: the past two years
    Location: 116A
    Time period: Session 3
    Instructor(s): Trent Ruebush

  7. Things your mother never told you about MALARIA
    Location: 116
    Time period: Session 4
    Instructor(s): Larry Barat, Mike MacDonald

Knowledge Extravaganza

  1. Knowledge Extravaganza! (0.1 CEU)
    Location: 101
    Time period: Knowledge Extravaganza!
    Instructor(s): To Be Determined

Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

  1. Community Case Management: A Necessity for Reducing Child Mortality and Achieving MDG4
    Location: 104
    Time period: Session 4
    Instructor(s): Ciro Franco

  2. Infectious Diseases and an Empty Stomach: New Evidence on Malnutrition as the Neglected Disease
    Location: 229
    Time period: Session 2
    Instructor(s): Frances Davidson

  3. New Evidence on the Role of Anemia in Maternal Mortality
    Location: Lobby A
    Time period: Session 3
    Instructor(s): Phil Harvey, Tina Sanghvi

  4. Not as easy as you’d zinc – Lessons from the research-to-program continuum
    Location: T1
    Time period: Session 2
    Instructor(s): Emily Wainwright, Malia Boggs

  5. Not your mother's vaccines: Using new vaccines against the old enemies of Diarrheal Disease and Pneumonia
    Location: 305H
    Time period: Session 1
    Instructor(s): Angela Weaver, Rebecca Fields

  6. Opportunities Gained:  It’s not the stock market, it’s Postpartum Hemorrhage prevention!
    Location: 305H
    Time period: Session 4
    Instructor(s): Debbie Armbruster, Harshad Sanghvi

  7. Saving Mothers and Newborns: Responding to Emergencies
    Location: 104
    Time period: Session 2
    Instructor(s): Barbara Deller, Patricia Gomez

  8. The New Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices Indicator: Measuring for Meaningful Results
    Location: Lobby B
    Time period: Session 1
    Instructor(s): Emily Wainwright, Erin Boyd

  9. Where there is no doctor or nurse: Can newborns survive?
    Location: Lobby A
    Time period: Session 1
    Instructor(s): Joseph de Graft-Johnson

  10. Who gives a @#!&? We doo Moving beyond technology to improve basic sanitation
    Location: 401
    Time period: Session 3
    Instructor(s): Christopher McGahey, Scott Tobias, John Borrazzo

 

Directions to the Mini-University:

This year's Mini-University will take place at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Ross Hall, in Washington, DC. Ross Hall is located at 2300 Eye St NW, right next to the Foggy Bottom Metro station. The registration area is on the first floor near the entrance. 

Click here for a map and more detailed directions from Maryland, Virginia, and the Metro.

 For more information about the GWU School of Public Health and Health Services, please visit their information page.

 For More Information:

Please contact Elizabeth Greene at (202) 712-0843 or egreene@usaid.gov.

 



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